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George Dunlap
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The credit scheduler tries as hard as it can to ensure that it always runs scheduling units with positive credit (PRI_TS_UNDER) before running those with negative credit (PRI_TS_OVER). If the next runnable scheduling unit is of priority OVER, it will always run the load balancer, which will scour the system looking for another scheduling unit of the UNDER priority. Unfortunately, as the number of cores on a system has grown, the cost of the work-stealing algorithm has dramatically increased; a recent trace on a system with 128 cores showed this taking over 50 microseconds. Add a parameter, load_balance_ratelimit, to limit the frequency of load balance operations on a given pcpu. Default this to 1 millisecond. Invert the load balancing conditional to make it more clear, and line up more closely with the comment above it. Overall it might be cleaner to have the last_load_balance checking happen inside csched_load_balance(), but that would require either passing both now and spc into the function, or looking them up again; both of which seemed to be worse than simply checking and setting the values before calling it. On a system with a vcpu:pcpu ratio of 2:1, running Windows guests (which will end up calling YIELD during spinlock contention), this patch increased performance significantly. Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
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